Shame Quotes - Page 16

• The more you behave like you have the right to exist in the world without interference, the less others will question it. The power of a fait accompli is astonishing. The more people see fat bodies moving and being physical and doing whatever makes them happy in the world, without apology and without shame, the more they get used to seeing that and thinking of it as normal.

  Hanne Blank

  Moving, Apology, Thinking

  Hanne Blank (2012). “The Unapologetic Fat Girl's Guide to Exercise and Other Incendiary Acts”, p.48, Ten Speed Press

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• The irony of conversing with a stranger is that your individual lives always look very different and personal, but then you strip away the nuances to find a common likeness buried inside of diversity. Take away money and geography and we’re all just flesh and blood and soul. We’re all dealing with sin and forgiveness, love and hate, glory and shame.

  Charlie Peacock

  Hate, Blood, Diversity

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• You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

  Brené Brown

  Motivation, Inspiration, Race

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• [With depression] you get a real sense of shame, because your friends go, 'Oh come on, show me the lump, show me the x-rays,' and of course you've got nothing to show.

  Ruby Wax

  Motivation, Real, Inspiration

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• Every soul, then, by reason of its birth, has its nature in Adam until it is born again in Christ; moreover, it is unclean all the while that it remains without this regeneration; and because unclean, it is actively sinful, and suffuses even the flesh (by reason of their conjunction) with its own shame.

  Tertullian

  Soul, Flesh, Birth

  Tertullian (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Tertullian (Annotated Edition)”, p.426, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I just had lunch with Slash two days ago. He loves Axl. He holds no grudges towards him. Twenty years of great music wasn't created because of some stupid grudge. That's a shame.

  Steven Adler

  Stupid, Years, Two

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• The real shame about the ending of the Guns N' Roses when I got kicked out wasn't just that I got kicked out, but Slash and Axl stopped working together

  Steven Adler

  Real, Gun, Rose

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• Every woman should be filled with shame by the thought that she is a woman.

  Clement of Alexandria

  Should, Filled

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• Shame occurs when you haven't been able to get away with the 'who' you want people to think you are.

  Carl Whitaker

  Thinking, People, Want

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• We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Guilty, Shame And Guilt, Feels

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• Disney will never make a movie about my life story, and that's a shame--I'd make a really cute animated creature.

  Kate Bornstein

  Cute, Stories, Life Story

  Kate Bornstein (2012). “A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The true story of a nice Jewish boy who joins the Church of Scientology, and leaves twelve years later to become the lovely lady she is today”, p.17, Beacon Press

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• But sometimes shame is a more powerful engine than rage. Like rage, it burns hot; and like rage it tends to consume its own furnace.

  Jonathan Maberry

  Powerful, Hot, Sometimes

  Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone”, p.588, Simon and Schuster

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• No woman kills herself for love, and rarely for shame. It is the cruelty of hope that does a woman in; for no matter how many men a woman has given herself to, she never holds her life cheap until she foolishly believed it to be valued.

  Sheri Holman

  Men, Doe, Matter

  Sheri Holman (2010). “The Dress Lodger”, p.234, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The shame of the U.S.S. Liberty incident is that our sailors were treated as though they were enemies, rather than the patriots and heroes that they were. There is no other incident--beyond Israeli attack on the U.S.S. Liberty--that shows the power of the Israeli Lobby by being able to silence successive American governments. Allowing the lies told by the Israelis and their minions in the U.S. is disheartening to all of us who are proud of our servicemen.

  James Abourezk

  Lying, Hero, Government

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• Awareness, not deprivation, informs what you eat. Presence, not shame, changes how you see yourself and what you rely on.

  Geneen Roth

  Awareness, Deprivation, Rely

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• Before the whole world, I accuse you, German intellectuals, you non-Nazis, as those truly guilty of all these Nazi crimes, all this lamentable breakdown of a great people - a destruction which shames the whole white race.

  Bronislaw Huberman

  Race, White, People

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• God can take what Satan meant for shame and use it for His glory. Just when we think we've messed up so badly that our lives are nothing but heaps of ashes, God pours His living water over us and mixes the ashes into clay. He then takes this clay and molds it into a vessel of beauty. After He fills us with His overflowing love, He can use us to pour His love into the hurting lives of others.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Hurt, Thinking, Water

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• Sip the shame so you won't have to guzzle the regret.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Regret

  Lysa TerKeurst (2012). “Unglued Devotional: 60 Days of Imperfect Progress”, p.32, Thomas Nelson

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• We want character but without unyielding conviction; we want strong morality but without the emotional burden of guilt or shame; we want virtue but without particular moral justifications that invariably offend; we want good without having to name evil; we want decency without the authority to insist upon it; we want more community without any limitations to personal freedom. In short, we want what we cannot possibly have on the terms that we want it.

  James Davison Hunter

  Strong, Character, Emotional

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• That's how life goes on - protected by the silence that anesthetizes shame.

  M. L. Stedman

  Silence, Goes On, Protected

  M. L. Stedman (2012). “The Light Between Oceans”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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• There should be no shame in admitting to a mistake; after all, we really are only admitting that we are now wiser than we once were.

  Greg McKeown

  Mistake, Admitting, Should

  "Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less". Book by Greg McKeown, April 15, 2014.

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• When you actively engage in gradually refining yourself, you retreat from your lazy ways of covering yourself or making excuses. Instead of feeling a persistent current of low-level shame, you move forward by using the creative possibilities of this moment, your current situation.

  Epictetus

  Moving Forward, Creative, Feelings

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• The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.

  J. Irwin Miller

  Aggravation, Cynical, Manners

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• Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.

  Mark Twain

  Regret, Hero, Men

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.254, Courier Corporation

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• Those who do nothing are inviting shame as well as violence. Those who act boldly are recognizing right as well as reality.

  John F. Kennedy

  Reality, Violence, Wells

  Civil Rights Address, delivered 11 June 1963

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